Thursday, November 16, 2006
5th Annual Karl Mackie memorial Race Against Cancer Categories - Events, Electric, On Road, Racing - comments closedOn the weekend of the 4th of November, the 5th annual Karl Mackie memorial Race Against Cancer took place in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. An event that was started as a tribute to Karl Mackie, who had died of cancer, by his son Tim and 5 other friends has grown from those initial 6 racers to over 100 racers 5 years later. The Stock Touring event was won by Rick Endler and the 19T by Louis Vanderwell but the result doesn’t matter but the coming together to support a good cause that is important here and the event was kindly helped by generous sponsors, even the track location was donated for the day.
DeGroot’s, a local greenhouse/nursery, cleared out one of their greenhouse facilities to provide a venue to set up the temporary ozite track. Classes run at the event included, TC stock, TC 19T, 1/12 scale, Open Micro on-road, and Open Micro offroad, and 4-cell oval. The oval class is a tribute to Tim’s father Karl, as he and Tim ued to race oval together.
Read the full report and view the many event pictures here.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Last weekend saw the 3rd round of the AstroTurf Masters held on the all weather track at Kidderminster. The event was all about Tony Truman who, driving his Losi XX4 buggy, took the TQ and and a convincing win finishing 9 seconds ahead of 2nd place Paul Robinson with Simon Reeves a further 3 seconds back in 3rd place.
Despite strong competition and struggling a little in the first two rounds of qualifying, young Tony Truman showed that he was the class of the field by comfortably taking the last two rounds to put himself in pole position for the final.
You can read the full report here.
Source: Helger Racing [helgerracing.com]
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
2006 Japanese EP Nationals, Expert Categories - Events, Electric, On Road, National, Racing - comments closed
This weekend sees the running of the 2006 Japanese EP Nationals for Expert class. The event is being held at the world famous Yatabe Arena indoor circuit and should play host to some titanic battles over the weekend. The level of racing in Japan is insanely good, combine that with a number of international racers as well as a large number of local manufacturers fighting for top honours and we should have a good event. Red RC ‘hope’ to bring you daily coverage but i can only rely on what information is being posted online so it may be sketchy at best.
Image: Much More Japan [much-more.co.jp]
Last weekend at Messina in Italy the Il Memorial “A. Schepis†event was held. This fun race involved 1/10th scale 200mm, Rally Game, 1/8th off road on tarmac circuit and of course 1/8th scale circuit. In the 1/8th scale circuit class top international racer Marco Vanni was there and took the win in what turned out to be an easy event for him, outclassing the field to eventually finish 7 laps ahead of Stefanizzi Davide who finished in second.
You can read the full report (Italian), final results from all classes as well as look at the gallery event here.
Source: Unoadieci [unoadieci.net]
OK, this is the last report from last weekends RC Pro Finals off road race that took place in Illinois, i promise. Just a quick post to say that the complete results have bee posted on the official Pro Series site so go check them out. Also check out the track in the image above, amazing setting.
Source: RC Pro Series [rcprosites.com]
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
2006 Singapore HPI Invitational Challenge 3 Categories - Events, HPI, Electric, On Road, International, Racing - comments closed
Although the race took place at the end of October, the report from the 2006 Singapore HPI Invitational Challenge 3 is only online now. Being hosted at the East Coast Park Raceway, the event attracted racers from all around South East Asia including Australia. After the race was over it was Alvin Koh who had gotten TQ and won the event ahead of Ong Chee Yong in second with 15 year old Nicolas Lee rounding off the podium.
Located at the center of Southeast Asia including Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines and Thailand, Singapore is one of the best countries to host an international event. With TV crews and many spectators, the event made an exciting weekend for the whole nation. HPI was the main sponsor of the event, aiming at vitalizing the RC market in Singapore.
You can read the full report here.
Source: HPI Japan [hpiracing.co.jp]
Monday, November 13, 2006
Asian GS Cup Malaysia Categories - Events, GS Racing, Gas, Off Road, International, Racing - comments closed
Just last weekend, the GS Cup for off road was held in Malaysia and attracted a large attendance. In the main buggy final it was Scott Yang driving a GS that took the win ahead of 2nd place finisher Ah M with a Hong Nor and David Lim with a Kyosho back in 3rd. The truggy class was won by Hengster with a Hong Nor followed by Ah Leng with his GS in second and just ahead of fellow GS racer Pegan who finished 3rd.
View the final results after the jump… (more…)
Video from RC Pro Finals Categories - Events, Video, Gas, Off Road, National, Racing - comments closed
Yeh i know what your thinking ‘more RC Pro final news!’, well yeh it seems not much else happened last weekend so you gotta work with what you’ve got. So what we do have is a video from the big event which shows the super sweet track and the awesome setting, its a shame that no one turned up to watch it seems.
You can view the video here.
You can also view some images of the event here.
You can view the final Pro Buggy results after the jump… (more…)
